With special guest Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.

Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:43
Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:44-1:11:26
Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:12:26-1:26:21

Director Bernard Rose
Screenplay Bernard Rose, based on “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker
Featuring Xander Berkeley, Michael Culkin, DeJuan Guy, Kasi Lemmons, Virginia Madsen, Ted Raimi, Tony Todd, Vanessa Williams

SPOILER-FREE SYNOPSIS 
 
Grad student Helen Lyle is determined to find out why the residents of the Cabrini-Green housing development in Chicago are petrified by the Candyman, a ghost who allegedly appears if you say his name in the mirror five times.  After jokingly summoning him with Trevor, her philandering professor husband, Helen heads to Cabrini-Green with her pal Bernadette to interview residents and track down the truth. Instead she discovers what might just be the Candyman’s lair, an abandoned apartment laid out strangely like her own.  Soon enough, she’s standing face to face with the man himself.  And he hasn’t brought a bag of Skittles.  This guy’s got a hook for a hand, bees on his knees, and a desire to possess Helen, who may or may not resemble the woman he once loved.  After her encounter with the Man, Helen awakes to find herself on the floor of an bathroom covered in blood, her crazy nightmare just beginning.
 
SPOILER-FREE GUEST BIO

Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. is Artistic Director of HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford’s Public Theatre and Visiting Lecturer in Theatre at Trinity College. He is also co-founder of Civic Ensemble, a community-based theatre company in Ithaca, NY. At HartBeat he has appeared in My Children! My Africa! and Possessing Harriet. For Civic, he appeared in My Children! My Africa!, Fast Blood and his adaptation of Mike Daisey’s The Trump Card. Godfrey taught for several years at Cornell University, where he co-produced and directed Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings and The Next Storm, in collaboration with Civic Ensemble. Godfrey was Producing Artist in charge of New Artist Development for Off-Broadway’s Epic Theatre Ensemble, appearing in A More Perfect Union, Widowers' Houses (which Godfrey co-adapted with Ron Russell), and Measure for Measure, among other plays. At Epic, he also co-wrote and starred in a documentary play about the election of President Barack Obama, Dispatches From (A)mended America. Godfrey is a 2012 TCG/Fox Fellow, a participant in the TCG SPARK Leadership Program, and a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has also taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Binghamton University, UConn Hartford and John Jay College. Additional New York theatre credits include The Old Settler (Primary Stages), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), Free Market (Working Theater), Leader of the People (New Georges), and microcrisis (Ensemble Studio Theater).

EPISODE NOTE

Music from Candyman by Philip Glass.

Yarn AudioWorks

Candyman (1992)

1-Victoria Wilson James - Through (Drop Deep Dub)
2-En Vogue - You Don't Have To Worry (Frankie Knuckles Classic Club Mix)
3-Chaka Khan - Give Me All (Frankie Knuckles Fierce Club Mix)
4-Sydney Youngblood - Anything (Classic Club Mix)
5-Vanessa Williams - The Comfort Zone (Frankie's Comfortable Mix)
6-Vesta - Do Ya (Classic Dub Mix)
7-The Pasadenas - Moving In The Right Direction (Classic Deep Mix)
8-Eve Gallagher - Love Is a Master Of Disguise (Frankie Knuckles Classic Club Mix)
9-Electribe 101 - Talking With Myself (Frankie Knuckles Lambada Mix)
10-Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle (Black Box) - You Got The Love (Instrumental)
11-Sabrina Johnston ‎- Friendship (Frankie Knuckles Classic Club)
12-Shirley Murdock - Let There Be Love (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
13-Julian Jonah - It's A Jungle Out There (Soho Dub) Knuckles & Morales - 1990
14-Eternal - Good Thing (Frankie Knuckles Vocal Club Mix) 1995
15-Michael Bolton - Can I Touch You There (Classic Club Mix)
16-Adeva - Until You Come Back To Me (Frankie Knuckles Lovers Overture)
17-Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song (Sound Factory 12 Inch Mix)
18-Adeva - It Should've Been Me (Frankie Knuckles Classic Club Mix)

Max - Tribute To Frankie Knuckles - 2014.2024

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